While midazolam is the only sedative labeled for continuous use during mechanical ventilation in pediatric ICU patients, ...

Among patients in the ICU who have undergone mechanical ventilation for more than 48 hours, wasting of skeletal muscles occurs rapidly. 9 Although immobilization may contribute to ICU-acquired ...

Prolonged dependence on mechanical ventilation is an “emerging public health problem” and is growing, Damuth and Trzeciak stated. Between 5% and 10% of patients needed a ventilator for more ...

Adults receiving proportional-assist ventilation had a similar time to successful liberation from mechanical ventilation as ...

Most of us had never given much thought to what a ventilator does before the COVID-19 pandemic. But here’s what you need to know now.

With the coronavirus still spreading and cases of COVID-19 still mounting, mechanical ventilators are in notoriously short supply. That has physicians scrambling to find alternatives for patients ...

When a COVID-19 patient requires mechanical ventilation support, it’s not just for a couple days. Two to three weeks is not an unusual time for patients to be on ventilators — sometimes longer.

Notably, although being on mechanical ventilation within the 14 days prior to sepsis initially had a protective effect against mechanical ventilation after sepsis diagnosis (aHR = 0.59; 95% CI, 0. ...

But the patient eventually did end up coming off the mechanical ventilator completely. It was a huge relief to find out later on, that they did in fact, survive their battle with Covid-19.

Of all the medical care that will have to be rationed during the Covid-19 pandemic, the most problematic will be mechanical ventilation. One strategy for avoiding debilitating distress over these d ...